The following is a presentation I gave to the MelbPC Users Group in November.
Social media in education
Social media in education
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Today’s students have hypertext minds. They can “multi-task” and “parallel-process” their information management tasks. Reading or researching in a book is foreign to them.
Joes non netbook
Social media is all encompassing and nowhere [...]
Social media includes the various online technology tools that enable people to communicate easily via the internet to share information and resources. In education, social networking goes way beyond Facebook and Youtube. The power of blogs, wikis and nings to communicate with either a class, parents or the school community is a good start for [...]
Today I attended a Web 2.0 professional development workshop with Will Richardson. It was held at Koonung Secondary College for Eastern Metropolitan Region teachers.
Will demonstrated Twitter, RSS feeds, screencasting, podcasting, blogs, wikis and discussed the need for education to shift along with the students and prepare them for the world of tomorrow.
I had my Pulse [...]